All-perplexing

When mass culture became all-consuming, all-accepting, all-entertaining, the underground disappeared-- leaving us to deal with our need to assert ourselves as individuals without necessarily burning down the KFC or blowing up the Cineplex or found our own alternatives, but without whole-heartedly buying into the entertainment complex that invites us to eat rubber chicken while we "Defeat the Dark Side and Win!"

--from We Want Some Too: Unacceptable Art and the Reinvention of Mass Culture by Hal Niedzviecki, p. 92